*
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
 * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
 * the License.
 */

package com.google.common.collect;

 * object.
 *
 * <p><b>Comparison to {@code java.util.Optional} (JDK 8 and higher):</b> A new {@code Optional}
 * class was added for Java 8. The two classes are extremely similar, but incompatible (they cannot
 * share a common supertype). <i>All</i> known differences are listed either here or with the
 * relevant methods below.
 *
 * <ul>

 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License
 * is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
 * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
 * the License.
 */

package com.google.common.io;

 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
 * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
 * the License.
 */

package com.google.common.collect;

 * extract additional metadata, or perform other transformations during the
 * indexing process.
 *
 * Ingesters are processed in priority order, with lower numbers having higher priority.
 */
public abstract class Ingester {

    /** Priority of this ingester (lower numbers = higher priority) */
    protected int priority = 99;

    /**
     * Default constructor.
     */
    public Ingester() {
        // Default constructor
    }

 * object.
 *
 * <p><b>Comparison to {@code java.util.Optional} (JDK 8 and higher):</b> A new {@code Optional}
 * class was added for Java 8. The two classes are extremely similar, but incompatible (they cannot
 * share a common supertype). <i>All</i> known differences are listed either here or with the
 * relevant methods below.
 *
 * <ul>

  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E higher(@ParametricNullness E e) {
    return delegate().higher(e);
  }

  /**
   * A sensible definition of {@link #higher} in terms of the {@code iterator} method of {@link
   * #tailSet(Object, boolean)}. If you override {@link #tailSet(Object, boolean)}, you may wish to
   * override {@link #higher} to forward to this implementation.
   */

 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License
 * is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
 * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
 * the License.
 */

package com.google.common.base;

 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package com.google.common.collect;

import static java.util.Arrays.asList;

      return emptySet(comparator());
    }
  }

  @Nullable E higher(E e) {
    checkNotNull(e);
    Iterator<E> iterator = tailSet(e).iterator();
    while (iterator.hasNext()) {
      E higher = iterator.next();
      if (comparator().compare(e, higher) < 0) {
        return higher;
      }
    }
    return null;
  }

  public @Nullable E ceiling(E e) {